Should owners of original ipad upgrade the os?
I am so frustrated by my ipad that I am not sure what to do. The original ipad only has 256 mb of ram and cannot be upgraded. The newer ipads have much more ram. The OS, currently IOS6, does not run well on the original ipad. So I have stayed with IOS4. Meanwhile the app developers have continued developing their apps with an eye toward compatibility with the new IOS. So, often my apps do not boot and I frequently have to cold reboot the ipad and re-download the apps to continue to get them to work. My simple apps, the New York Times, the NewYorker magazine, Comixology, the Economist are so hard to boot that I am ready to move to another platform. If I have to abandon my investment (the ipad cost me $500), I will never trust apple again.
christian2jutt wrote:
I am so disappointed by this users's forum, but perhaps I shouldn't be surprised as the users have an uncritical attitude towards Apple and never question the strategy of planned obsolesence. A more responsible corporate policy would be to allow users of the original equipment to continue using their equipment by allowing Ipad users to continue using the old versions of the apps in question and not force continuous (and RAM hungry) upgrades.
Apple isn't forcing you to do anything. If you don't want to upgrade then don't upgrade.
Your iPad may be having other issues not related to the Apps at all.
In fact my sister still owns an original iPad, still is running iOS 4.3.3 and she can run all the Apps she has since she bought it just fine without updating. Eveyrthng works just as it did before the iOS 6 upgrade and before the iOS 5 upgrade.
Nobody is forcing you to do anything.
If anything it would be the App developers pushing there newer versions and having them only be compatible with the newer iOS, but that's up to the Developers.
Producing newer versions of the Operating system helps improve existing features and provide newer ones that maybe weren;t possible with the hardware available before.
If certain features require new hardware, there's not muhc to do. The more things it can do, the more RAM its going to need, and the more processor power. but that is the same for every device in existance.
Technology evolves, and requires more and more resources as it does more things. I don't expect a cell phone from 5 years ago to be able to handle today's commmunications. Or a Computer from 10 years ago to handle todays software.
Things are just happening faster now. And yes Apple is a company out to make money by selling devices. Soi they put out newer devices that do more things asnd run faster because they have higher specs so consumers will buy them. Its called running a successful bussiness.
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